Paul Gavett's Chris Reynolds Interview

Inspirations and working methods.

http://paulgravett.com/articles/article/chris_reynolds

#chrisreynolds #mauretaniacomics #comics #graphicnovels

Image: the mysterious Monitor!

 

Discussion about Mauretania Comics. Rome, Italy

https://www.tunue.com/

#chrisreynolds #mauretaniacomics #comics #grphicnovels

Image: A journalist speaks enthusistically about comics.

Mauretania Comics in Italy!

https://www.spaziob5.com/

Italy #bologna #comics #graphicnovels

Image: Mauretania Comics window display.

Mauretania Comics at Paris Gare de Lyon (during Covid!)

https://www.garesetconnexions.sncf/fr/gare/frply/paris-gare-lyon

#chrisreynolds #graphicnovels #comics #paris

Image: Artwork at the station.

Eldon and Lendon

Image: Page from "Eldon and Lendon"

As we approach October... perhaps it's time to exhume last year's Pocket Chiller Halloween video!

A Pocket Chiller

https://youtu.be/fS_moKV1vF8

Image: Caption “For Halloween...”

 Creeping Shadow review

Extra special thanks to Douglas Noble for publishing my "Creeping Shadow", reviewed here on the authoritative Broken Frontier website:

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/a-pocket-chiller-creeping-shadow/

“It's great being part of the Pocket Chiller team!” - Chris Reynolds

#chrisreynolds #mauretaniacomics

Image: Book cover with Mr Sunderland!

 Eldon and Lendon

The Highway of Fear!

https://youtu.be/EPqoB1NLIKY

#chrisreynolds #mauretaniacomics

Image: Cover of Highway of Fear Comic!

The Sunday Night Project

The Sunday Night project - sunset

So it's Sunday night. It's the night before going back to school or going back to work. The evening is drawing on, and the light is getting dim. There are just a few hours before sleep. What are you going to do with them?

The Sunday Night project - sunset

Sunday night films on the TV were generally films of the older kind, films you might watch alone. Films where you were the only one.

The Sunday Night project - sunset

There might be a scene where they went down to the beach, filmed on a Wednesday, or on any other day of the week, but because of when you were watching, the beach became a Sunday Night beach. The Sunday night beach to visit before sleep...

https://mauretania.cinemadetectives.com/sundaynight.html

#chrisreynolds #mauretaniacomics

Images: Mountains at sunset.

 

My new detective book.

In my new book, “Lowell's”, I feel as if I am creating a detective novel from first principles. I wrote some scenes with the idea that I would tie all this material together and work it up into a detective book. My plotting is not good. The book needs more story, but there is some nice stuff in there.

So, my plan is now to write a second “Lowell's” using the settings and characters from what I've established so far. I may write this as a series of short stories longhand, and then type them up.

ROBERT'S GOLDEN AGE TRAIN RIDES AGAIN!

Robert's little train from The Golden Age finally crosses the canal once more!

https://cinemadetectives.com#goldenage

#comics #graphicnovels #goldenage #mauretaniacomics

Images: The train!

Fine Art Print catalogue pages

"I would rather be anywhere" and other prints!

Chris Reynolds

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/i-would-rather-be-anywhere-chris-reynolds.html

#chrisreynolds #paintings #posters

Image: Pages from the catalogue.

 

 I was astounded to find a copy of T.E. Hughes' “Chapels of the Dial in North Wales” yesterday. I thought only the National Library of Wales had one!

https://www.library.wales/

#chrisreynolds #mauretaniacomics

Images: Fake cover and fake title page.

One of the most important things that has ever happened to me as a cartoonist has been the support of Seth, who edited and designed my “New World” book. It has been wonderful. Seth can probably not imagine how grateful to I am to him.

https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-new-world?variant=53520533831

#comics #graphicnovels #seth #chrisreynolds

Text: Cover of "The New World" book!

 

THE DIAL AND OTHER STORIES

I was as pleased as punch in 2005 when Marc Baines of Glasgow's Kingly Books decided to reprint some of my Mauretania Comics stories in a smart new paperback. It was a really great thing and we had the launch at the Mono bar. The bar still exists although the great Kingly Books has gone! https://www.monocafebar.com/

The contents of Marc's “Dial” do not all appear in Seth's “New World” collection of my stories, although the first “The Dial” does.

The Dial and Other stories opened my eyes into how stories could be presented in print.

http://theslingsandarrows.com/the-dial/

#comics #graphicnovels #glasgow #kinglybooks #chrisreynolds #mauretaniacomics

Image: Cover of the book!

PROWL CAR INTERNATIONAL!

Chris Reynolds is one of the leading international graphic novelists.

His books have been published by Penguin and New York Review Books. His work has been translated into Italian, French and Spanish and reviewed by newspapers internationally, including The Guardian, TLS, New Statesman, Boston Globe, and most recently on the release of Italian and French editions in La Stampa, Il Manifesto, La Repubblica and Le Monde.

http://cinemadetectives.com/prowlcar.html

#comics #graphicnovels #kualalumpur

Image: page from the story.

 

PROWL CAR INTERNATIONAL!

Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur. World Book Capital 2020.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6

#comics #graphicnovels #kualalumpur

Image: page from the story.

TARGAFLORIOCOMICS: DO THEY COME OFF?

What are Targafloriocomics?

These comics are blessed by a spirit of irresponsibility. They are comics that will just take off and zoom down the straights with no thought of the dangerous bends ahead. Their readability or content may not be enhanced, their translation may be poor, and their subject matter … dumb ...but they do possess a certain... freedom.

The Italian version of Inspector Rockwell, despised, his office desk dumped unceremoniously in the road outside police headquarters... Rockwell will still solve the case!

Photo stories, stories that contain nothing, or stories that will make you squirm. Familiar characters Moon Queen and Prince Umsween adventure to regions far beyond their normal continuity. What is this? What are you trying to pull? Make you angry? Make you … cheated? Are there any videos? We've got aliens, of course!

Look out for the logo. Look out for Targafloriocomics wherever fast, zooming, irresponsible brain-dead Futurist comics are sold. Tragafloriocomics!

(Where does the name come from? The Targaflorio was a sports car race around the island of Sicily – like the Isle of Man TT motorbike races, but slightly more Dangerous!)

Experimental or just “...mental”?

#comics #graphicnovels #chrisreynolds #mauretaniacomics

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6

Image: Comics covers with the Targafloriocomics logo.

PROWL CAR INTERNATIONAL!

We are the 28: “Power of Dreams,” “No Shocks,” “Not Taken,” “Human,” “Heavy Traffic,” “Giant Waterfalls,” “They Control Us,” “Liquid Light,” “Hands,” “The Framework of Cups,” “New Land,” “Old Trees,” “Dream Car,” “Tell Him,” “Memories,” “Old World,” “New Growth,” “Real Wife,” “Run Home,” “Bequest,” “Pulse,” “Spinner,” “Stronger than Magic,” “The Tree,” “Time to Forget,” “Top of the Town,” “Through Trees,” and “Wings.”

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6

#comics #graphicnovels #kualalumpur

 

PROWL CAR INTERNATIONAL!

The Prowl Car visits Malaysia! A digest of Twenty-Eight Prowl Car stories, many completely re-imagined for Kuala Lumpur

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6

#comics #graphicnovels

 

TORUS

had SOME stories I would have liked to have seen in “Adventures From Mauretania” but that's not what it became. I wanted it to look as if it just followed on, but what happened was that it followed through into the future.

#topology #geometry #comics #graphicnovels

https://www.amazon.com/Torus-Chris-Reynolds/dp/0244655847

TORUS

Collect Musicubes and find “Pure Heart”. Will they get them all? (Not without a little help!)

#topology #geometry #comics #graphicnovels

https://www.amazon.com/Torus-Chris-Reynolds/dp/0244655847

Image: Panels from the story, cover.

TORUS

Watch “The Beginning of Empires” with Monitor. He has to join the army!

#topology #geometry #comics #graphicnovels

https://www.amazon.com/Torus-Chris-Reynolds/dp/0244655847

TORUS

Monitor's house, the one with the horns! Is revisited here by a Christmas train!
The title page from TORUS.

#topology #geometry # comics #graphicnovels

https://www.amazon.com/Torus-Chris-Reynolds/dp/0244655847

 

FUTURE FARM STORIES

This book often has price deals!

I wanted to include another story in this book and so I included the single-page “Earth Fault,” with my character, Monitor. It's one of the stories where he is a child and was inspired by my visit to an enormous air base and by looking at some of the wartime air-base-style houses. The road to the enormous air base was little more than a lane and, even at that, appeared little used. It was as if all the business of the air base concerned only the sky and the people there had little use for the land at all.

“Earth Fault” features as its final panel, the appearance of a dazzling sunset that is seen to flow through the house. The book is black and white. I gave it some thought. So the panel with the sunset is repeated on the colour back cover.

An official-looking reference to being “Approved by the Agricultural Standards Institute” appears on the book's title page, accompanied by the silhouette of a cow. There is no such body. It is purely imaginary.

#farmers #comics #landscape #mysticism

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6

Image: Panels from the story!

 

Mister Parsley

FUTURE FARM STORIES

This book often has price deals!

The book is inspired by the kind of children's “annual” which used to be commonplace as a Christmas gift. OK, I have subverted the idea, but I do rather like those old things. I used to have a lot of them. The stories were always told straightforwardly but they were often mysteriously nostalgic, because most of the old annuals I had were second-hand.

I remember sitting in the quiet bedroom at my grandparents' house, the evening sun slanting in through the window. The title pages of these books had inscriptions about old children from years before; “This book belongs to …” and then the name. The unknown “M. Rodgers” or “To Josh. A present from Mrs Dickinson...” and this might be a second inscription; The book had been second-hand even then!

#farmers #comics #landscape #mysticism

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6